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on a been visited as h y lt e u cr led however an unparalle a democracy, r n Myanmar, fo ly ti h ig m a military ave struggled tolerable for in people who h as w is th n ve short-term. E rthrow of limited in the rrendous ove o h e h T r. e n pow ression wed to its ow and brutal rep s n io ct le e ic mocrat n of legitimate de condemnatio e th d te ri d me that followe d. SIGNIS ound the worl ar s e ti e ci so democratic ax Christi anizations, P rg o r e tn ar p on the joined its lare, in calling co o F d an al Internation d on the nity to act, an u m m co al n internatio risoners. ase political p le re to ry ta ili there m s its members rt o p p su y tl ie SIGNIS qu ss. er great dure d n u rk o w d who live an

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ithout freedom of expression without a free press, democracy dies. Without democracy, human rights are vulnerable to the whims of those in power. SIGNIS throws its full support to those struggling for free speech and independent reporting. Members in some countries live in situations in which freedom of speech is virtually outlawed.

We support their valiant stand on behalf of the truth.

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he world we knew before 2021 is no longer the world in which we live. Seismic changes wrought by the pandemic, disinformation on social media, the rise of all kinds of extremism, the clergy abuse scandal, and as this report is written, the first war of aggression in Europe in over 70 years. Though SIGNIS’s mission is unchanged, the field of endeavor has shifted. It calls for not only a new vision of the work, but new ways to resource it. In addition to training sessions for leadership in fundraising, project development and evaluation, the development team conducted its first virtual online event in the US, #mediaforpeace. There is the potential of so many marginated communities, whether in the Amazon, or Nepal or the Congo, to find and share their communal word and thus help heal and enrich our world. SIGNIS will continue to explore how to support that untapped power for good.

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Peace and the Lexicon of the media “Being a communicator of the truth is a vocation”, declared Helen Osman, president of SIGNIS, at the SIGNIS Asia 2021 Journalism Seminar, recalling that “Oscar Romero's testimony is powerful… How can journalists be bastions of peace and be a 'voice for the voiceless’?”

Questions were raised from countries as diverse as Japan and Bangladesh, India and Ecuador. It became clear that participants shared the intuition that the truth is at risk and that it is necessary to bring the language of peace into the discourse of the media.

During the seven weeks of the seminar, the foundation was built for a community of global journalists who will learn from each other. Their vitality produces the kinds of stories that affirm in other media professionals their vocation to communicate the truth.

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The SIGNIS Asia seminar, Journalism in a Fragmented World, held online with 40 professional journalists from 14 countries, sowed hope even as it acknowledged the dangers to freedom of expression.

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The Next Generation of Communication Leaders: SIGNIS Talent+

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or over a decade, SIGNIS has been supporting a new generation of young leaders in communications as they found their voice. The Video Journalist program grew into the Communications Laboratory. In Latin America a corps of young communicators engaged in multiple and distinct actions for peace and the planet. In India a multicultural group of young participants from all these experiences gathered for an intensive semester-long program in “Communication & Compassion,” which among other themes, explored the meaning of Laudato Si’ in an interfaith context.

Many of these youthful professionals have gone on to reproduce the media education process they experienced in workshops and projects they do locally. Others have gone on to work in the media industry, bringing their values to the marketplace. This nascent movement of young communicators we for now call “SIGNIS Talent+”

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In light of this history, SIGNIS now finds its voice in theirs. Their enthusiasm and commitment illumine the path to the future in a new communications universe. It is their turn to lead.

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n 2021, young people from Latin America participated in the online Laudato Si' Ambassadors study program in, called “Spirituality and Pastoral Communication from an Ecological Perspective."

The young participants developed different proposals (audiovisuals, podcasts, booklets, Apps, e-books, traveling photographic exhibitions or multimedia websites, among others) focused on the ecological transformation of their communities.

These initiatives were founded on the ideals of caring for our common home and integral ecology raised by Pope Francis in Laudato SI' and Querida Amazonia.

This program was conducted by the Latin American and Caribbean Catholic Communication Association (SIGNIS ALC), the Association of Catholic Communicators of Venezuela (SIGNIS Venezuela), the Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB) and the Institute of Theology for Religious (ITER).

Being part of the first group of PREA (Program of Advanced Studies) students in Spirituality and Pastoral Care in Social Communication from an Ecological Perspective has been a very spec ial experience for me. It focused on my passions: communication and care for the environment.

Since I was unclear about how to unite and put into practice my interest in these two areas ,I decided to apply to the program in order to learn more about them.

I have fond memories of the warm treatmen t we received and the quality of the classes taug ht by the instructors. I also valued the opportuni ty to discover good colleagues and make new friends. With them, I was able to create the "EcoFilm Laudato Sí" project, a proposal for a film festival with an ecological viewpoint.

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Abrazar un arcoíris, a book from Luis García Orso, S.J., Ecclesiastical Assistant of SIGNIS

“Reaching out to LGBTQ people is an essential ministry for the Catholic church. Why? Because Jesus reached out first to people on the margins, and there are few people in society who are as marginalized as LGBTQ people, and there are no people in the church who are as marginalized as LGBTQ people.

Father Garcia Orso (of SIGNIS) is a fellow Jesuit priest and fellow laborer in this new vineyard, and he is trying to do Jesus's work of reaching out. Ministry with LGBTQ people is also an important part of the Society of Jesus's call for Jesuits to "walk with the excluded."

I pray that people may listen to Father Orso, and walk with him, as he walks with the excluded”.

Rev. James Martin, SJ Editor at Large - America Media

Covid-19 has been a humbling experience—as Pope Francis noted early on, it questions us about what it is we hold dearest. It is with such humility that like other communicators of good will, SIGNIS members learned to adapt, invent, and face a media environment increasingly poisoned by disinformation.

Discussion on critical issues continued online—what member of SIGNIS has not become well-versed in the use of Zoom? Perhaps the most ambitious and successful online experience was the 7-week webinar organized by SIGNIS Asia, Journalism in a Fragmented World. Over 40 journalists from 14 countries participated. Meanwhile, in Mombasa, Kenya, the archdiocesan communication office produced programs to offer guidance to families coping with the pandemic. Catholic publications in the US prepared for a COVID shutdown by planning an effective remote system to work in teams. We have only begun to understand how COVID has permanently altered how we communicate, and to take stock of the ingenuity and resourcefulness that in fact enhances human dialogue.

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Communications in A Time of Plague:

Cinema for our Common Home

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SIGNIS recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, but thanks to its roots in the International Catholic Organization for Cinema (OCIC), created in 1928, SIGNIS effectively has a legacy of more than 90 years in service of cinema. This includes organizing officially recognized juries at international festivals for almost 75 years.

CineMag is one of SIGNIS’s most recent online publications. Its theme in 2021 was “Our Common Home.” CineMag focused its gaze on film and nature, on stories that call us to the preserve ecosystems. Reflecting on such crucial values in today’s world facilitates the use of film as an effective tool of evangelization.

Among the more than 2,000 films that have received awards by OCIC/SIGNIS, many invite us to visit the larger world we live in.

SIGNIS long odyssey with cinema will lead to the discovery of new, diverse voices to appeal to a wider audience for CineMag.

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Radio Hekima, Mbinga, Tanzania.

SIGNIS produces “Media for a Culture of Peace”

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Caribbean, the variety of expressions, the different tonalities

and sotaques (the Brazilian word that describes the different accents that people have) speak with a youthful cadence.

Since January 24, 2022, when the station was officially

inaugurated, around 80 young communicators from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela have taken on a

commitment to make a “mess”, as proposed by Pope Francis at the 2013 World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

They participated in an intense eight-month production training

program for community and citizen radio promoted by SIGNIS

Latin America and the Caribbean. The young radio broadcasters then gave life to the programming of RadioLío. By listening

to the heartbeat of marginalized communities who live on “the periphery” of society, the young producers provide creative and dynamic programming that seek to achieve the changes that the people want.

SIGNIS Asia and the SIGNIS World Radio Desk sponsored and organized the first International Youth Podcast Competition leading up to the SIGNIS International Radio Encounter to be held in Sri Lanka in May 2022.

The podcast competition, open to youth from all over the world, intended to encourage young people to tell their story by submitting a one to three minute podcast based on Pope Francis’ encyclical, Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship.

A total of 42 podcasts were received from young people from SIGNIS Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The jury, composed of leaders from SIGNIS Asia, and Radio Desk members from Africa and Latin America, chose the top four finalists. The winners will be awarded a cash prize and the overall first place will have the opportunity to present virtually and share her experience with the participants of the first Radio Encounter. All the podcasts received will be made available on the Vatican Radio and SIGNIS websites.

Podcast Competition - Radio Desk

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In November 2021, 21 young communicators from the Diocese of Galle in Sri Lanka attended a Caritas workshop on social communications led by Sampath Priyadarshana, member of SIGNIS Asia and graduate of our CommLab programme.

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Agriculturalist benefitting of Radio Programs, Gbarnga, Liberia.

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t SIGNIS Services Rome we are experts in communication and information technology, being the branch of SIGNIS

that covers media development and access around the world.

From the beginning, our mission has been to give a voice to the voiceless by providing means of communication in those areas where it is difficult to receive and send information, and where the local population could benefit from being more interconnected, engaging the youth in diverse projects and promoting peace and

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All of this, in order to create an impact in local communities that can now make their voices heard, learn about the world of communications, and ignite change.

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reconciliation.

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n important goal of the project is to inform the population about the risks of harmful use of social networks. Bishop Gonsallo says:

It is a space for exchange, where training activities for educational, spiritual, moral and technological development can take place. The project targets all the faithful and people of good will, but we focus on young people as they are essential to impacting others.

EXPLAINS ARCHBISHOP ARISTIDE GONSALLO IN A #SIGNISWITHYOULIVE INTERVIEW.

“if young people are more proficient with the digital means, they will be able to improve their daily life in various fields, be it trade or agriculture”.

As part of this project, in June, a training in social communication took place: “Witnesses of Christ through the means of social communication”.

Twenty-two youth participated in three modules: journalism; digital communication and social media; theoretical principles of interviews, debates and discussions. Many of the participants have already started writing reports on the website of the diocese and debuted on social media. The equipment for the Communications Center has arrived and it is fully operational, ready to respond to the wishes and expectations of the church: a pole of attraction and evangelization of young people by young people, with the production of media products on the Bible, catechesis, the social doctrine of the church and Christian life.

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orto-Novo, almost 2 million citizens, in the heart of Benin, West Africa. The media landscape is rich but the voice of the Church is struggling to be heard. To stand out among the numerous private communication outlets and the media of other religious denominations that broadcast in Porto-Novo, the diocese has shown a strong desire to amplify Catholic communication locally via the Call for Project Ideas launched by SIGNIS Services Rome, presenting a project for a new communications center that supports local youth.

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Participants to the training in Communication.

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n 2021, we opened the doors of our office to young students from La Sapienza University of Rome. We started offering internships to students of international development who wished to improve their skills and gain hands-on experience in the field.

engaged with international stakeholders and fundraisers.

The interns were from Italy and Turkey, each with a broad international background and a keen interest in improving telecommunications systems. One of them, Sofia Papi, summed up her experience: collaborating with SSR “offered me insight into the world of international development, and provided me with new tools and procedures I was not familiar with. It was a great opportunity to improve not only my professional but also interpersonal skills”.

Sofia Papi

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The interns dove into developing their aptitude in various areas: understanding how the world of project writing works, improving their technological awareness, and learning how the field has evolved. They learned about development project writing as they

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Gbarnga, Liberia.

“I read the news, present, interview and broadcast at Radio Paraclete, there are no limits for me in this field [radio]. I am thankful for this opportunity as this radio improves people’s lives day by day, and helps people like me discover their potential”.

Padre Aurelio Gazzera, Bouar, Central African Republic.

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Solar panels that power Radio Paraclete, in the diocese of Gbarnga, Liberia.

many lives”.

Eda Pütgül Istanbul, Turkey.

“I chose SSR because I find their mission to be very important, reaching out to very vulnerable communities of the world. I also found the field of the internship [at the Development and Fundraising Department] as a chance to further explore my career interests and goals”.

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In the more than 60 episodes that have aired, some 100 guests have told the stories of how their projects came to life, benefitting hundreds of people through improved access to media, training programs for the youth, and much more. SIGNIS With You Live is a window into the lives of people in over 40 countries who tirelessly work to empower their communities, and to promote peace and human dignity.

The show, which has reached over 50,000 viewers to date, also highlights creative initiatives, projects, and opportunities by SIGNIS for communicators worldwide. It is a show that welcomes everyone that is promoting the use of media for peace.

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ow entering its third season, SIGNIS with You Live, a Facebook streaming show, offers a 30-minute, dynamic slice of life from the global intersection of faith and communication. Hosted by the effervescent Maria Victoria La Terza of SIGNIS Services Rome, the program’s guests each week share stories of the realworld change wrought by all manner of media projects. A perspective often shared on the show by SIGNIS members and other is the importance of the voices and faces of local people in communications. Without them, no amount of technology by itself can transform the human spirit or create a culture of peace. From TimorLeste to Argentina, from film festivals to digital radio, every Friday at 4:00 pm CET, viewers can enjoy good news about innovative communications in diverse, often ignored places in our world.

Highlighting media which promotes peace-building and human dignity.

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Internet V-Sat Connection in Kauda, Sudan.

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To engage with media professionals and support Catholic communicators to help transform our cultures in the light of the Gospel by promoting human dignity, justice and reconciliation.

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PRESIDENT

Ms. Helen Osman USA

SIGNIS SERVICES ROME

ssr@signis.net

VICE-PRESIDENT

Mr. Lawrence John Sinniah MALAYSIA

GENERAL MANAGER

VICE-PRESIDENT

Maria Chiara De Lorenzo

Fr. Paul Samasumo ZAMBIA

ECCLESIASTICAL ASSISTANT

Fr. Luis Garcia Orso, SJ MEXICO

GENERAL TREASURER

Mr. Emmanuel Bonnet FRANCE

EUROPE

NORTH AMERICA

Mr. Ákos Lázár Kovács

HUNGARY

Mr. Frank Frost

Ms. Magali Van Reeth

USA

FRANCE

Ms. Pam Alemán

CANADA

SECRETARY GENERAL

Mr. Ricardo Yáñez ARGENTINA/USA

GENERAL MANAGER SIGNIS SERVICES ROME

Ms. Maria Chiara De Lorenzo ITALY

AFRICA

Mr. Carlos Ferraro

Fr. Walter Chikwendu Ihejirika

Ms. María José Centurión

Fr. Alberto Buque

PARAGUAY

NIGERIA

MOZAMBIQUE

Maria Victoria La Terza

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Mr. Sikares Sirakan

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COMMUNICATION

COMMUNICATION

INTERNATIONAL

PACIFIC

Ms. Agatha Maria Ferei Furivai

FIJI

Mr. Bill Falekaono

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ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL

AUDIOVISUAL AND V-SAT

Isaac Atchikiti

Dr. Terence Ascott

SECRETARY GENERAL

Ricardo Yáñez

Maria Chiara De Lorenzo

PROJECT WRITING

INDIA

sg@signis.net

Ella Cangy

José Alberto Chávez del Río

THAILAND

ARGENTINA

Dr. Nataša Govekar SLOVENIA

ASIA

Fr. Joseph Anucha Chaiyadej Dr. Magimai Pragasam

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARRIBEAN

REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DICASTERY FOR COMMUNICATION OF THE HOLY SEE

SECRETARY AND ACCOUNTING

GENERAL SECRETARIAT

news@signis.net Edgar Rubio (Coordinator), Larry Rich (Editor SIGNIS Media), Charles Ayetan (Editor CineMag SIGNIS), Cécile Monfort (Web & Social Media Editor), Marc Bourgois (Translation).

MEMBERS

members@signis.net Maria Chiara De Lorenzo (Coordinator).

Projects Team: Alejandro Hernández, Fabienne Deseau, Nadia Tekal.

Members Team: Marc Bourgois, Fabienne Deseau, Nadia Tekal.

ADMINISTRATION

Florentina Gonzalo (Coordinator), Marc Bourgois (Guests, Building), Fabienne Deseau (General filling), Nadia Tekal (Assistant, Building), Edgar Rubio (General Services).

DEVELOPMENT

development@signis.net Isaac Atchikiti (Officer), Larry Rich (Adviser), Ricardo Yáñez, Edgar Rubio.

REPRESENTATION

Maria Chiara De Lorenzo and Agnès Ravoyard.

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10. MEXICO: ABRAZAR EL ARCO IRIS A BOOK ON MINISTRY TO LGBTQ PEOPLE

1. MYANMAR: SIGNIS, PAX CHRISTI, FOCOLARE PROTEST 2. CUBA: MARCH FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES

SIGNIS: COMMUNICATING IN AGE OF COVID: 11. MOMBASA: HOW TO COPE WITH PANDEMIC 12. USA: CATHOLIC PRESS COVID PUBLICATION PLAN 13. USA MEDIA FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN ONLINE EVENT

ASIA 3. JOURNALISM IN A FRAGMENTED WORLD SEMINAR AMBASSASORS LAUDATO SI' 4. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: ASHLEY MEDRANO 5. ARGENTINA: EMANUEL ALEJANDRO MANGANELLI YOUNG PROFESSIONALS YOUNG PROFESSIONALS AT WORK

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6. INDIA: STANLEY HECTOR 7. IRELAND: CLARA PLANELLES 8. CUBA: XAVI CARBONELL 9. TOGO: CLEMENS DE SOUZA

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SIGNIS IN ACTION

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Training young professionals regarding ethics of communication.

NORTH AMERICA CANADA (ENGLISH) USA USA USA USA/CANADA

ARCCC, Association of Roman Catholic Communicators of Canada CNS, Catholic News Service SCCF, SIGNIS Catholic Communicators Forum USCCB, Department of Communications - CCC CMA, Catholic Media Association

EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST AUSTRIA BELGIUM (FLEMISH) BELGIUM (FRENCH) CZECH REPUBLIC FRANCE GERMANY GERMANY HUNGARY IRELAND ITALY LEBANON LUXEMBOURG MALTA NETHERLANDS POLAND PORTUGAL PORTUGAL ROMANIA SLOVAK REPUBLIC SLOVENIA SPAIN SPAIN SWITZERLAND (FRENCH) SWITZERLAND (GERMAN) SWITZERLAND (ITALIAN) UNITED KINGDOM

Medienreferat der Österreichischen Bischofskonferenz Filmmagie vzw Média Animation, Communication & Éducation TV Noe FMC, Fédération des Médias Catholiques Deutsche Bischofskonferenz Katholischer Medienverband MAKÚSZ - Hungarian Catholic Association of the Press The Radharc Trust CEI, Ufficio Nazionale per le Comunicazioni Sociali CCI, Centre Catholique d’Information Communication & Presse de l’Archidiocèse de Luxembourg Beacon Media Group KFA Filmbeschouwing SIGNIS Polska Secretariado Nacional da Pastoral da Cultura Binaural - Associação Cultural de Nodar SIGNIS Roumanie LUX Communication SŠK, Slovenian Bishops’ Conference, Commission for mass media UCIPE - Unión Católica de Informadores y Periodistas de España SIGNIS-España Cath-Info Katholisches Medienzentrum ComEc Centro Cattolico Media della svizzera italiana (Associazoione ComEc Southworld WebMag

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ECM, Social Communications Department CEM, Commission Nationale des MCS CAPAV, Compagnie d’Animation et de Production Audiovisuelle CEM, Comisión Episcopal de MCS SIGNIS Nigeria Radio Arc en Ciel CES, Commission des MCS Diocèse de Port-Victoria, Service Audio-visuel SACBC, Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference Con. Ep. Nat. Cath pour les Com. Sociales UEC, Social Communications Department ZEC, Catholic Media Services ZCBC, Social Communications Commission

ASIA BANGLADESH CAMBODIA EAST TIMOR HONG KONG INDIA INDONESIA JAPAN KOREA MACAU MALAYSIA MYANMAR PAKISTAN PHILIPPINES SINGAPORE SRI LANKA TAIWAN THAILAND VIETNAM

Christian Communications Centre CMA, Catholic Media Association CPA, Casa de Produção Audiovisual Hong Kong Diocesan Audio-Visual Centre SIGNIS India SIGNIS Indonesia SIGNIS Japan - Catholic Media Council SIGNIS Korea Macau Diocesan Social Communication Center SIGNIS Malaysia CBCM, Episcopal Commission for Social Communications Rabita Manzil SIGNIS Philippines Communications Office of the Archdiocese of Singapore NCCSC, National Catholic Centre for Social Communication RBCT, Regional Bishops’ Conference of Taiwan, Social Communications CSCT, Catholic Social Communications of Thailand CBCV, SCC, Social Communications Commission

PACIFIC

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN SIGNIS-Argentina, Asociación Católica Argentina para la Comunicación SIGNIS-Brasil, Asociação Católica de Comunicação SIGNIS-Chile SIGNIS-Costa Rica, Asociación Católica Costarricense de Comunicación SIGNIS-Cuba, Organización Católica Cubana para la Comunicación SIGNIS-República Dominicana SIGNIS-Ecuador, Asociación Católica de Comunicación Diocese of St.Georges-in-Grenada, Communications Commission SIGNIS de México AC ACCP, Asociación de Comunicadores Católicos de Paraguay APC, Asociación Peruana de Comunicadores - Mons. Luciano Metzinger Diocese of Paramaribo, Media Coordination AEC Antilles Episcopal Conference TCN, Trinity Communications Network DECOS Montevideo - SIGNIS-Uruguay SIGNIS-Venezuela

AFRICA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS ANGOLA BURKINA FASO CONGO REP. DEM. REP. CONGO ETHIOPIA GAMBIA GHANA IVORY COAST KENYA MADAGASCAR

CEA, Social Communications Commission CEBEN, Commission des Moyens de Communication CCC, Commision Episcopale des MCS SIGNIS RDC CBCE, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ethiopia Gambia Pastoral Institute DEPSOCOM, NSC, National Catholic Secretariat CEMCSCI, Commission Episcopale des MCS de Côte d’Ivoire KCCB, Social Communications Department Radio Don Bosco

AUSTRALIA FIJI GUAM/OCEANIA KIRIBATI MICRONESIA NEW CALEDONIA NORTHERN MARIANAS PAPUA NEW GUINEA SOLOMON ISLANDS TAHITI TONGA VANUATU WALLIS AND FUTUNA

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INTERNATIONAL MEMBERS ACN, Asian Communications Network ALER, Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Blagovest Media Chevalier Family COE, Centro Orientamento Educativo CREC International FMJ, Fraternités Monastiques de Jérusalem Kuangchi Program Service Maryknoll World Productions PCN, Paulines Communications Network Salesians of Don Bosco International SAT-7 International World Family of Radio Maria Africa LiCAS.news

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